Nvidia’s monstrous new graphics cards crank up the power while dropping their prices
Nvidia's new RTX 3080 graphics card will take up lots of space in your PC, put out tons of heat, and crank out high frame rates. (Nvidia /)Like many other gadgets, graphics cards live on an annual product-release cycle. Every year, there’s a new latest-and-greatest that promises gamers higher frame rates, better graphics, and bragging rights over all of your PC gamer friends who are still playing on last year’s offering. That constant churn can make it difficult to figure out when a new card is really a big jump over what came before it.Last year, when Nvidia released the RTX 2080 Ti flagship graphics card, it was a big deal. The card brought with it ray tracing, an advanced graphic technology typically utilized by movie special effects houses to create realistic graphics. Expect to hear a lot more about ray tracing later this year, as both Sony and Microsoft...